In my many years of experience with online marketing, I have come across MANY people wanting to get their business online to generate leads &/or sales, but they’re often very confused about where to start and what’s truly important. So, inspired by a phone call from a lady in that situation today, I decided to record a quick video with some thoughts on the subject that will hopefully point you in the right direct.Continue reading →

Justin Popovic lives about 1 hr’s drive north of Toronto, Canada and is a 33 year old successful Internet Entrepreneur.

3 years ago he was looking for a way to escape his career and become a full time business owner as a personal coach. He didn’t know much about being an entrepreneur but knew he needed a platform where he could share his knowledge and attract potential customers. He took a huge risk and left his full time corporate career to dedicate his life to building his business.

In Part 2 (of 2), I continue the discussion of the SEO & traffic strategy that guarantees your website will get more traffic by adding more pages of content to your site.

Using Yahoo!7’s Shopping site & focussing on Digital Cameras as an example market or niche, I show you the key elements that contribute to their high natural SEO rankings for many keywords in the digital camera space, and the search engine traffic they gain by following the simple principles of the strategy I discuss.

This strategy can be used for pretty well ANY online business or hobby site to get higher rankings and more traffic, and it’s SOOOO simple to understand that even a child can do it!

We’re right down to number seven. And this one is probably the most obvious one of all of these seven. But I left it to last because a lot of people don’t have their own product or service to sell via a blog.

So, obviously number seven is sell your own products or services. Blatantly obvious, yes I agree totally. But here’s the thing, a lot of companies don’t do that. Blogging is a very, very powerful way for you to build your brand out there so that people get to know who you are and what you stand for. It’s a little bit different than building a traditional website because the most effective blogs are typically the ones where the person writing the information has put a little bit of their personality and some of their own understandings or own interpretations of situations onto that.

So, the sixth way of making money with your blog is to use email marketing. And the prerequisite to that is that you have to actually start building your own newsletter list from your website or websites. And I’ve got an example here of one of my sites that I set up a while ago. It’s not very active so it’s nothing flash to look at: www.cisco-certification-central.com. If you don’t know what Cisco Certification is, don’t worry about it, it’s an IT related industry I used to work in. But I just want to scroll down the page and show you these particular areas here.

Okay, the fifth way to make money with your blog is to sell advertising space or traffic from your website. Now I probably should state what may be obvious, but may not be, that you need to actually have a site that’s getting some traffic before you can start doing this.

If you’re a brand new blog and the only visitor is yourself and your mother then you’re not going to get too many people to do this. But once your blog is built to a certain level of traffic where you’re getting enough customers coming through the door or getting enough readers coming through the door, you then are in a position to start selling exposure to those eyeballs.

The next way to make money with your blog, well there are two examples in particular I’m going to show you, are relatively new companies. From memory, they’ve only been around for six to twelve months, certainly not much longer than that. And that’s the option of doing what I called sponsored reviews.

Okay, the next way to make money with your blog is via affiliate programs. And in actually fact, as I mentioned earlier when I was talking about CPA networks, quite often you’ll find that affiliate programs are quite often one in the same.

For example, Commission Junction or ClickBank are both considered, you could make a case of them being a CPA network as well. I suppose one of the areas where affiliate programs most commonly differ from CPA networks is that individual business or websites can run their own affiliate program.